CTO Forum Face-2-Face meeting

Logistics

    • date: 26.05.2016
    • time: 10:00 - 15:00 CEST
    • venue: NORDUnet office Kastrup
    • VC" room for remote participation: 632462520 

Agenda

  1. Updates (45 mins)
    1. GÉANT (VN)
    2. GN4 Update
    3. EOSC & ECI - short term & long term initiatives
  2. Nordic Media Group (11:00-12:00).  
    1. Status and Current work (Thorkild Jensen) 
    2. Discussion
  3. Low-delay video / Nettmusik (OK)
  4. Lunch (45 minutes)
  5. Country / NORDUnet updates (max. 20 minutes per NREN)
    • FUNET slides
    • SUNET slides
    • UNINETT slides
    • DeIC slides
    • RHnet slides
    • NORDUnet slides
  6. AOB

Participants

  • Leif, Per, Valter (SUNET)
  • Olav, Vindar, Anders (UNNETT)
  • Martin, Tangui, Ole, Thorkild (DeIC)
  • Jon-Ingi (RHnet)
  • none from FUNET
  • Lars, Jørgen, Josva (NORDUnet)

Notes

  • We discussed network and innovation strategy.  We need a larger community discussion. First step would be a strategy brainstorming workshop, to synthesize views and issue, possible as a two-day event back-to-back with a CTO F2F in the fall, possibly facilitated.
  • EOSC: we like the basic idea of data analytics, but worry it is lost in politics.  The larger ECI/EOSC proposal appear to have move far from the NREN field. 
  • We believe that data analytics is going to be important and would like to create initiatives, Nordic or European. We may inject something in WP18-20. Possibly a GÉANT TF or workshop on data analytics. 
  • Thorkild presented the NMG and the overview of media systems they have produced; the overview gives a nice summary and useful input for vendor discussions and tender processes.  
    • The process was open, but we're only at first step of getting consensus. More work is needed. 
    • Next step is technical requirements for a procurement process, to be done in European procurement process. 
    • Next step for media group is to assist evaluation in the European procurement.
    • Upcoming tender does not mean that AdobeConnect go away; there's not direct connection between the two
  • Otto Winther presenting Musikknett - low latency video (conferencing) for music education.
    • UNINETT has built a lab and is testing methods to get rid of delay.  Often delay comes not from the network
    • Over the summer, at student will test how low you can go with WebRTC.
  • Updates
    • NORDUnet: 
      • Tundra project going ahead.  Press release now-ish. 
      • LMS tender going ahead.  Tender should be out before summer holidays. Unclear if DANTE procurement team will run it; otherwise, NORDUnet will
    • SUNET:
      • Preparing to trial (connectivity to) MS Express Route; A few universities want it. DeIC is recommending universitites to await the results of the GÉANT IaaS tender. That will happen October. 
      • Anders Nilsson will put a team together to on eduroam probes. SUNET and UNINETT working together on further developing and testing eduroam probes. Other Nordic NRENs are welcome to join.  A Nordic WiFi Group is an option.    
      • New network progressing. 8 links up.  Fibre challenges encountered. 
      • Interest in eduID statistics and status.  LJ will find references and send to list.
      • ESS: SUNET is talking to local ESS IT in Lund about connectivity; SWAMID it talking to them about membership. SUNET is considering fibre access to the instrument sites. 
    • UNINETT
      • Router procurement concluded.  Juniper selected.  UNINETT is testing Ansible for automation and orchesration. 
      • Norwegian cable project Virginia - Blåbjerg, for 2019. Kurosh can make introductions.
      • Aquacom project to build cable Ireland - Trondheim. Possible element if future NDN footprint.
      • FEIDE has implemented two-factor authentication.  
      • UNINETT has built a prototype data analytics, as a container based service  UNINETT is piloting with researchers, and now demonstrating a web-based frontend.   UNINETT Sigma is considering a larger-scale pilot.
    • DeIC: 
      • data.deic.dk moving from pilot to production. 
      • Optical network procurement:  Pre-qualitification completed: Ciena, Cisco, ECI, ADVA, Nokia.  Offers due 6 June.  Contract August, deployment 2h 2016.
    • RHnet:
      • 10G upgrades to non-Reykjavik campuses coming this summer. 
      • Danish met office HPC facility has gone live, connected to RHnet.  Production run so far with about 1 Gbps. 
  • AOB
    • NTW2017 dates set:  Sep. 12-14, Radisson park inn, Copenhagen.
    • NDN2016 registration is open.

Actions

  • JK / LF to make proposal for strategt brainstorm workshop, for NDN board.
  • LF to put Data Analytics on a future CTO F2F
  • LF/VF to talk to Anders and Tom about creating Nordic Wifi Group.
  • LF to consider "Nordic WG framework", at first for Nordic Wifi Group.
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